Apple celebrating 25 years of Mac sales
For twenty five years, the Apple Macintosh has been on the shelves of computer stores and things could not be any better for Apple, but it was not always like that.
The original Mac was a 128K machine launch on the 24th January 1984 and although Lisa was launched a year earlier, it is the Mac [...]
Piracy overtaken by legal downloads
It must be a dream come true for the music industry as recent suggest that finally legal downloads of music have now overtaken illegal downloads and out of interest CD sales are also down.
Fifteen percent of Internet users purchased music from online music stores, such as iTunes and AmazonMP3, which is an increase of 2 [...]
November 27, 2008Beatles and Apple Store not happening, yet
Fans of the Beatles were expecting to being able to download their favourite tracks from the Apple iTunes store as the deal seemed to be going ahead with no problems, but now that seems to have all changed.
The deal or possible no deal is now virtually nonexistent as the two sides fail to reach a [...]
Millions turned into criminals overnight
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May 16, 2008Is it cool? Not!
Today there are many cool things that people just love to buy, simply because they think that everyone else thinks that they are cool. Just because of having a particular item means that the person who has it must be cool, but in reality some of these must have items are really making the people [...]
May 2, 2008Music sellers to pay $100 million
It looks like thousands of music writers and publishers could be looking at getting part of a huge $100 million payout from Time Warner, Real Networks and Yahoo after a court established a system of payment that would suit all parties.
Although having said that, this will not necessarily mean that these music content providers [...]
March 20, 2008Unlimited downloads on iPhone
For some people the worst thing about downloading music and other material is the choice followed very closely by the cost, which could be why Apple are said to be looking into the possibility of making the initial cost of the devices more expensive but in exchange for this extra charge, the users would be [...]
March 11, 2008Beatles on iTunes at last
There are many people today who will be very pleased to hear that ex Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has just signed a deal worth £200 million that will see the music of the fab four being available for the first time on iTunes.
Of course all of the cash will not be going to [...]
March 7, 2008Facebook partners with iTunes
Facebook are always on the look out for some great money making opportunities, after all as they say it is a great marketing tool and why not everyone needs to make some cash from somewhere, don’t they?
By opening up a music section this will allow the users to shop online for their music but [...]
February 13, 2008Top Valentines gifts for girls
This time of the year is one gift after another, we had Christmas and now there’s Valentines Day, mothers day and of Easter to come. But Valentines Day is a nice day, it’s when we shower the person that we love gifts etc, but what are the best ones of this year?
Here is a top [...]
January 28, 2008Amazon threat to iTunes
For years now Apple has been regarded as the number one in music downloads, firstly due the enormous success of the iPod in its various guises and secondly in order to corner the market in music downloads they created iTunes which has undoubtedly been the premier site for music legal music downloads since is was [...]